Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mercantile Marine Act 1850 was seen by the government as dealing with the other side of the problem — that of raising the standard of British seamen and seamanship and of protecting the seamen themselves from the tyranny of their officers and the depredations of the shipowners . |
| 2 | The magic castle that is London 's St Pancras Station rests upon a forest of unseen arches , forming a vault which in the railways ' heydays , from the 1870S to the 1920s , housed the thousands of barrels of beer that arrived daily from Burton-on-Trent . |
| 3 | His biggest claim to fame is introducing Ben Watt and Tracy Thorn and giving the world Everything But The Girl . |
| 4 | PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS , for generally apparent reasons , are very fond indeed of the dedicated book buyer , while at the same time having no regard whatever for the collector of books . |
| 5 | Most of you simply because they have no shame , now bringing it round to a spiritual thing , how can we show that we , where it describes there beggars for the spirit , it really means having no shame whatsoever in the truth , never hold back in demanding really , what your requirements are in the way of spiritual things and a good mirror to this is analyze yourself and ask yourself what am I like , am I really a beggar in spirit , what am I like when the magazines come ? |
| 6 | Instead of storing the values themselves in the hash table , each table entry becomes the head of a linked list . |
| 7 | IN THE course of our lives , events take place , with which the passage of time , we come to realise are like milestones ; they have pointed us in a new direction , often posing a challenge which in the providence of God , when accepted , leads us deeper into his life and service . |
| 8 | It is as though a librarian , ordered to destroy Lady Chatterley 's Lover , simply tore up the card from the card index , leaving the book itself on the shelf . |